Design of a Channel Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Scheme

Xing, Yuexiu, Hu, Aiqun, Zhang, Junqing ORCID: 0000-0002-3502-2926, Peng, Linning and Wang, Xianbin (2023) Design of a Channel Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Scheme. IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, 10 (8). pp. 6946-6959.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2022.3228280

Abstract

Radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification is an emerging device authentication technique that exploits the hardware imperfections resulting from the manufacturing process. Due to the varying impact of the wireless channel during RFF training and test stages, it is challenging to design channel-independent RFF techniques. This article designs a channel robust RFF identification scheme by leveraging the different spectrum of adjacent signal symbols, named the Difference of the Logarithm of the Spectrum (DoLoS), which does not rely on a single RFF feature or requires additional manipulation of the devices under test. Specifically, DoLoS exploits the fact that two different symbols in a packet exhibit different RFF features but have a similar channel response during the channel coherence time. We implemented the DoLoS with the IEEE 802.11 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system as a case study. We carried out extensive experiments using seven Wi-Fi devices of the same model in different wireless channel environments, including 12 data collection positions in two completely different environments. Compared with conventional RFF identification schemes that do not eliminate channel effects, our scheme is robust to channel variations and the highest identification accuracy is 99.02% in the single-environment evaluation and 97.05% in the cross-environment evaluation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Symbols, Feature extraction, Wireless fidelity, Wireless communication, OFDM, Internet of Things, Authentication, 802.11, device authentication, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), radio frequency fingerprint (RFF), wireless channel
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2022 15:09
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2024 14:44
DOI:	10.1109/JIOT.2022.3228280
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166616